Nswers. Wikiworld. Demystifying Wikipedia::How to Be a Model Wikipedia Contributor. Wikipedia — like Google or CNN — is a name we recognize immediately when mentioned in conversation. The collaborative online encyclopedia currently ranks 8th on the Alexa list of top web destinations. Ask anyone sitting in front of a computer to find information for you on any topic. While most might turn first to Google, many others will turn to Wikipedia. It seems there is an entry for everything on Wikipedia and almost every one of my own burning questions have been answered by a quick consultation there. I’ve even said here that I would feel somewhat impaired in my daily tasks without Wikipedia. But like most people I know, I am a passive user of Wikipedia: I receive information from the site regularly but I don’t contribute to it. In an attempt to demystify the process for myself and for you, I spoke to a few active Wikipedia users to get the real story have compiled a walk-through for any would-be Wikipedia contributor. 1. 2. 3.
Sounds pretty simple — and it is actually. 4. Oops. How Google, Wikipedia Have Changed Our Lives — For Better and Worse. A lecturer in the U.K. made headlines this month when she banned her students from using Wikipedia and Google for research assignments in her classes. The professor, Dr. Tara Brabazon, said that students “don’t come to university to learn how to Google.” I’m sure they don’t, but I can imagine the fear that the ban struck in the hearts of her students. I don’t see how she could possibly enforce her restriction, but the thought of writing a term paper or a thesis without at least some help from the Internet makes me shudder. But I think the professor has a point. What did I do before Google and Wikipedia? Knowledge, Then and Now Research Then I remember as a child sitting in a damp back room in my grandparents’ house poring over encyclopedias, dreaming about faraway places like Spain and becoming fascinated with grade school astronomy.
Research Now I haven’t been to the library in about 10 years. Heidegger Works on Google Everyday Life, Then and Now Here’s the way it normally plays out: 1. PEDIAPHON. Monta näkökulmaa Wikipediaan. Wikipedia Uses Open Source to Remix Content. Building off its recently added inclusion of Creative Commons a few weeks back, Wikipedia is furthering its initiatives to make its content more available for purposes outside of its immediate website. With a new partnership with WikiEducator and other wikis, the Open Society Institute will be lending its open source technology and a $40,000 grant, along with the Commonwealth of Learning (which hosts WikiEducator), and the initiative being led by German start-up PediaPress.
The goal is to achieve free education, make wiki content available for remixing, and available in the printed world as well. This initiative will take place in three stages, the first of which began today. A public beta on WikiEducator will test out the fnctionality of remixing tools for wiki collections, and the conversion of downloading them in PDF format. In through the outfield: Jimmy Wales talks Wikis at Online Information 2007. I am just starting to catch up from the week that was Online Information 2007 and will be creating a few blogs from my notes. First of all was the keynote speech ‘Web 2.0 in action:free culture and community on the move’, from Jimmy Wales of the Wiki Foundation on Tuesday 4 December Wikipedia is a registered charity which cost $1 million in 2007 and forecasted to cost $2-3 million in 2008 which is amazing considering it is now the 8th most popular website in the world. Even in Iran it is the 14 most popular.
It has expanded to over two million articles in English, but has over six million in total. It has 14,000 articles in Hindi. But when you consider that there are 280 million Hindi speakers, it still has a long way to go. Jimmy said that Wikipedia will remain true to encyclopaedia base and not include articles which you would not expect to find in a general purpose publication. Students should use Wikipedia. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has said teachers who refuse younger students access to the site are "bad educators". Speaking at the Online Information conference at London's Olympia, he played down the long-running controversy over the site's authority.
He said young students should be able to reference the online encyclopaedia in their work. Mr Wales said the site, which is edited by users, should be seen as a "stepping stone" to other sources. As long as an article included accurate citations, he said he had "no problem" with it being used as a reference for younger students, although academics would "probably be better off doing their own research". I advocate for this with my students: use Wikipedia as that "stepping stone" but also as a way to tap into the collective knowledge on a topic - especially pop culture, technology and basic historical entries.
Why Yahoo! Answers is a librarian's worst nightmare. - By Jacob Leibenluft - Slate Magazine#page_start#page_start. When it does battle on the Web, Google rarely loses. Last year's closure of Google Answers, however, marked a rare setback for the search giant. An even bigger shock is that Yahoo! Succeeded where Google failed.
Yahoo! Answers —a site where anyone can post a question in plain English, including queries that can't be answered by a traditional search engine—now draws 120 million users worldwide, according to Yahoo! ' The blockbuster success of Yahoo! The site's home page, which offers a real-time snapshot of the dozens of questions posted every minute, provides a good sense of users' favorite topics: relationships, computers, homework, pregnancy. For educators fretting that the Internet is creating a generation of "intellectual sluggards," the problem isn't just that Yahoo! ' Take a popular question asking about common customs and beliefs among Native Americans.
How did Yahoo! Some people might look at this mixed record and think that Yahoo! Like Yahoo! Even though Yahoo! List of search engines. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Search engines, including web search engines, selection-based search engines, metasearch engines, desktop search tools, and web portals and vertical market websites have a search facility for online databases. By content/topic General † Main website is a portal Geographically localized Accountancy IFACnet Business Computers Content Openverse, search engine for open content. Dark web Education General: Academic materials only: Enterprise Apache SolrJumper 2.0: Universal search powered by Enterprise bookmarkingOracle Corporation: Secure Enterprise Search 10gQ-Sensei: Q-Sensei EnterpriseSwiftype: Swiftype SearchTeraText: TeraText Suite Events Tickex (US, UK)TickX (UK, Ireland, Spain, Netherlands) Food and recipes Genealogy Mocavo.com: family history search engine Job Legal Medical Mobile/handheld News People Real estate/property Television TV Genius Travel Bustripping Video games Wazap By data type Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information Maps Multimedia Price Source code.
Kirjastontäti rokkaa. Online Information - Tues 4 Dec: Wikipedia in a squatter slum in India - a way out? Has Jimmy Wales Discovered the Value of Editing? Wikipedia and Creative Commons next steps. Students 'should use Wikipedia' Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has said teachers who refuse younger students access to the site are "bad educators". Speaking at the Online Information conference at London's Olympia, he played down the long-running controversy over the site's authority. He said young students should be able to reference the online encyclopaedia in their work. Mr Wales said the site, which is edited by users, should be seen as a "stepping stone" to other sources. As long as an article included accurate citations, he said he had "no problem" with it being used as a reference for younger students, although academics would "probably be better off doing their own research". "You can ban kids from listening to rock 'n' roll music, but they're going to anyway," he added.
"It's the same with information, and it's a bad educator that bans their students from reading Wikipedia. " Mr Wales said the website still lacked the authority to be used as a citeable source for college-aged and university students.